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Metazoa: The origin of reason in the animal kingdom

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Metazoa: The origin of reason in the animal kingdom
14.99 €
When a scuba diver dives into the sea, he is confronted with life forms that seem forbiddingly alien: there are sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose bizarre bodies, intricate structure and flower-like outgrowths resemble plants or even architectural forms rather than something animal. And yet all of these creatures are our relatives. As equal representatives of the animal kingdom - metazoa - they can tell us a lot about the evolutionary origin not only of the human body, but also of his consciousness. By tapping into their experience and understanding what it is like to perceive and interact with the world as other living things do, Peter Godfrey-Smith shows that the animal body, which appeared more than half a billion years ago, was the very innovation that set life on a fundamentally different path. By tracing the emergence by natural selection of sponges, corals, shrimp, octopuses, and fish, and then moving on land to the world of insects, birds, and primates, Metazoa bridges the gap between mind and matter, bringing us closer to the resolution of one of the most profound philosophical problems: the problem of consciousness.
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